It's official: DOJ sues Florida over voter purge
DOJ said as much yesterday. Now, here's the press release and lawsuit:WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida and the Florida...
View ArticleRos-Lehtinen says she backs Holder contempt vote
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, said she backs fellow House Republicans in their effort to subpoena Attorney General Eric Holder. The Oversight and Government Reform Committee may vote next week to...
View ArticleHow Rick Scott’s noncitizen voter purge started small and then blew up
Florida’s latest elections controversy began in the smallest of ways: a five-minute chat a year ago between Gov. Rick Scott and his top election official. At the time, about February 2011, the newly...
View ArticleCitizens Insurance boardmembers vote to replace interim president and...
Tom Grady, current interim president of Citizens Property Insurance and a neighbor and political ally of Gov. Rick Scott, will not become the company’s permanent president. On Wednesday morning,...
View ArticleAnother big endorsement for Connie Mack: FL AG Pam Bondi
If Florida's top Republicans were deciding the U.S. Senate primary, the race would be over in June, well before the Aug. 14 primary, now that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has joined former Gov....
View ArticleFlorida firefighters back Barack Obama
So a union endorsed a Democrat. So what, right? Well, the Florida Professional Firefighters were the only firefighter affiliate union in the country that refused to back John Kerry in 2004, partly...
View ArticleAfter getting mocked on the Daily Show, Gov. Scott all smiles
Gov. Rick Scott said it was out of necessity that he developed a thick skin since running for office for the first time in 2010. "The newspapers don't always agree with everything you do," Scott told...
View ArticleJon Stewart mocks Rick Scott's noncitizen voter purge; Scott all smiles
TAMPA -- Gov. Rick Scott said he developed a thick skin since running for office for the first time in 2010. "The newspapers don't always agree with everything you do," Scott told about 270 attendees...
View ArticleDemocrats look to Marco Rubio to corral votes for top Hispanic White House...
Senate Democrats are looking to Republican Sen. Marco Rubio today to twist the arms of a few of his fellow GOP senators on a controversial White House nomination. They're hoping the Florida senator...
View ArticleOnce upon a time, LeMieux proudly had a Mack's support
As former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux and U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV slug it out in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, a little history is worth recalling. When a younger LeMieux ran for the state...
View ArticleLegal voters may -- or may not -- have been purged from rolls in noncitizen hunt
Gov. Rick Scott often says that no actual citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in his program to make sure noncitizens don’t have the chance to cast ballots. “Not one person has been taken...
View ArticlePolice union newsletter calls gov and his staff 'sh**heads' for shutting them...
Fed up with the closed-door treatment from Gov. Rick Scott, the Police Benevolent Association sent a nasty gram using a word game in its quarterly newsletter, Roll Call. The sixth page of the March...
View ArticleRubio, Menendez speak to Cuban dissident after his release from jail
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., spoke Wednesday about their conversation with Cuban dissident Jorge Luis García Perez, known as Antúnez, after he was released from jail....
View ArticleMarco Rubio to campaign with George Allen, Virginia Senate candidate
George Allen, the former Virginia senator and governor who's once again running for U.S. Senate, will get some help tomorrow from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. Allen's campaign says the Florida senator will...
View ArticleHaridopolos came to the aid of friend and company on no-bid contract
When a politically connected company was in danger of losing a $9.4 million no-bid contract with the state, Senate President Mike Haridopolos came to the rescue of the outfit — a firm that employs his...
View ArticleTwo of Greer's lawyers withdraw from his criminal case
James Cheney Mason and Donald A. Lykkebak, two Orlando lawyers representing former GOP Chairman Jim Greer want out. Mason is asking an Orlando circuit judge to allow him to withdraw from the criminal...
View ArticleOf rifts in Jim Greer's legal camp and sloppy, trashy Tampa TV reporting at WTSP
James Cheney Mason and Donald A. Lykkebak, two Orlando lawyers representing former GOP Chairman Jim Greer, want out. Mason is asking an Orlando circuit judge to allow him to withdraw from the criminal...
View ArticleRick Scott: I was wrongly called dead, stripped from the voter rolls
From AP Florida Gov. Rick Scott knows what it's like to be told that he's not a registered voter. In a radio interview Thursday, Scott said he was forced to cast a provisional ballot because election...
View ArticleDJJ secretary asks governor to clarify EBA contract; agency wants it bid out
Caught once in the crossfire between the Senate president and outspoken legislators over whether or not to seek bids for a $9.4 million contract, the Secretary of Department of Juvenile Justice now...
View ArticleCitizens United backs Dave Weldon, calls Connie Mack 'puppet'
The group that made "Super PAC" a household word is making its presence known in Florida's Republican Senate race. It likes former Congressman Dave Weldon and isn't a big fan of current Congressman and...
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